Lightning, Bay of Bengal

After an evening rain in Pondicherry, India, lightning continued to flash over the Bay of Bengal, here rimmed with the orange glow of nearby streetlights. Sandip Dey, a member of our photo community, wanted to make a dreamlike frame with the rough sea smoothed out to better showcase the drama of the sky. "I set the camera at f/16 and shot a few long exposure frames at 16mm," Dey writes. "Since I was making a single-exposure shot, I had to balance between the manual exposure duration and the amount of lightning that I wanted."

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@Aditya Khare It was taken using long exposure, the shutter was kept open for around 3 and 1/2 minutes. That duration ensured, that I could catch the small residual light present in the sky. The lightning (in fact more than one) happened during that period. The orange glow of the sea is from the illuminated waves that were crashing against the rocks. The place is the rocky beach at Promenade, Pondicherry.